Increasing Wealth a Tyrant.
—Mr. Henry Watterson, editor of the Courier-Journal, says: “Our capital is fast becoming the most inhumane, the most iniquitous tyrant the world has ever known. Its tyranny is a blight and curse to those who exercise it as to the multitude, who are its victims. We are hypnotized by the glare and glitter of wealth, are becoming incapable of a rational view of life. We have lost taste for simple things and simple ways. We are the victims of commercialism. We have lost sight of the eternal principle that riches are akin to fear and death; that by the soul only can a nation be great. Here is a citation from that hard-headed old jurist, James C. Carter: ‘Can a candid answer avoid the admission that our society is under the control, abject in thought and action, of an enormous pressure of material interests and personal ambitions which disdain any appeal to what is everlastingly true and right?’ There is but one religion; Christ and Him crucified, with all that implies.” The apostle tells us: “They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.” 1 Tim. 6:9.